Man who gave drum to Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch gets a new one

One of the defining moments of Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch’s cruise of triumph during last week’s Super Bowl victory parade in Seattle came when he took a hand drum from a fan in the crowd and loudly banged on it for much of the ride. He even took it out onto CenturyLink Field during the team’s ceremony, mashing on it all the way.

Seattle Seahawks’ running back Marshawn Lynch bangs on a drum that was given to him by a fan during the Seahawks’ Super Bowl victory parade in Seattle(Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)

As we later found out, Lynch was given the drum by John Scott, an American-Indian Seahawks fan who brought his traditional drum with him to the parade.

Scott’s generosity did not go unnoticed. Nathan Chasing Horse, a medicine man of the Rosebud Lakota Sioux Nation and an actor in the 1990 movie “Dances with Wolves,” heard that Scott had given up his drum and decided the offer up a replacement he made himself.

Scott told Q13/TV that he was initially apprehensive about giving up his drum to Lynch because of the deep-rooted American-Indian tradition the instrument represents, but eventually decided that if there was an occasion that merited it, the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl was it.

“I was kind of concerned; he doesn’t know how sacred it is to the native community,” Scott said. “But then when I realized, hey, this is Marshawn Lynch, he just won us a Super Bowl. So I thought it was an even exchange — the drum for the Super Bowl.”

The new drum was presented to Scott in a ceremony at the Tulalip Casino.

“I pray that this will serve a good purpose in the smoke house or wherever you choose to use it, and so my brother friend, this is your drum,” Chasing Horse told Scott, according to Q13.

Beast Mode’s eccentric behavior during the parade was undoubtedly one of the most memorable aspects of the occasion. His drum-related antics, however, led to a more heartwarming conclusion than most might have predicted.